Posted on July 16, 2011 by Jack
Every now and then during a slow news cycle, some media outlet will run a story about a fanatic couponclipper who triumphantly demonstrates how to buy $300 worth of groceries for just a few dollars, all through the simple expedient of clipping coupons. It’s the kind of “free money” that anyone can have if they put in the time and effort.
Such heroic deeds are no longer confined to the supermarket: Meet Michel Thibodeau, the Ottawa resident “language rights” equivalent of the compulsive coupon clipper. Instead of haunting supermarkets, he haunts bus companies and airlines, forever on the lookout for an abrogation of his right to hear the station stop, the weather, the time and the altitude in French, whether he is trundling across town or flying over Quebec City, Toronto or Calgary.
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Possibly Heritage Canada could take some of their funds and give them to an organization willing to send PC Guerillas into Quebec and start lawsuits every time they are not accomodated in English...
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